Child&#39;s safety seat for barber chair



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United States Patent Ofi ice 3,190,692 Patented June 22, 1965 3,190,692 (IHILDd SAFETY @EAT FOR BARBER CHAIR Thomas .I. Collier, 169 N. Hanson St, Easton, Md. Filed Mar. 2, 19%4, Ser. No. 343,490 1 Claim. (til. 297-251) This invention relates broadly to chairs or seats and more specifically to an auxiliary seat structure and the manner of mounting same upon a chair.

In the use of an auxiliary seat in conjunction with a barbers chair, for supporting a child, it has been the usual practice to place a board, upholstered or not, across the arms of the chair for the child to sit upon. While some efforts have been expended in improving this type of seat, such as providing a back and sides or arm rests, the custom or practice has been adhered to of simply placing such a seat upon the arms of the barbers chair. Such a seat structure fails to provide any means to insure the retention of the seat upon the chair, so that, a child becoming frightened or restless would, either tend to lunge out of the seat or to twist and turn to the point that they would dislodge the seat from the chair resulting in the child falling out of the chair. While efforts have been expended toward devising ways and means whereby a seat could be firmly secured to a barbers chair these efforts have not provided a seat that could be firmly secured or anchored to a barbers chair and still be readily removed therefrom and which would also insure the retention of the child therein. 7

One of the objects of the present invention is to provide an auxiliary seat having a member mounted thereon which is detachably connected to a supporting chair for locking the seat thereon.

Another object is to provide an auxiliary seat having members connected thereto that overlie and engage the arms of a supporting chair with said members having means to engage said chair for detachably securing the seat thereto.

Another object is to provide an auxiliary seat having a plurality of members thereon engageable with the upper and lower surfaces of the arms of a supporting chair for securing the seat on said arms.

A further object is to provide an auxiliary seat having a plurality of members thereon engageable with the upper surface of the arms of a supporting chair with one of said members having a portion thereof encompassing the back of the chair for securing the seat on the arms of said chair.

A still further object is to provide an auxiliary seat that is mounted on the arms of a supporting chair with a guard bar extending across the front of the seat to insure the intention within said seat of the occupant thereof.

Still other objects are to provide an auxiliary seat which is preferably fabricated from relatively light weight tubular material, which is readily mounted upon and secured to a supporting chair and which is simple and economical of manufacture.

Other objects and advantages, more or less ancillary to the foregoing in the manner which all of the various objects are realized, will appear in the following description which, when considered in connection with the accompanying drawings sets forth the preferred embodiment of the invention.

Referring to the drawings, wherein the preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated:

FIGURE 1 is a perspective view of an auxiliary seat embodying the present invention;

FIGURE 2 is a front elevational view showing a portion of a barbers chair with the auxiliary seat of the present invention mounted thereon;

FIGURE 3 is a vertical sectional view showing a portion of a barbers chair with the auxiliary seat of the present invention mounted thereon, the view being taken on the plane 33 of FIGURE 2;

FIGURE 4 is a perspective view of a modified form of an auxiliary seat embodying the present invention; and

FIGURE 5 is a side elevational view of a portion of a barbers chair showing the auxiliary seat of FIGURE 4 mounted thereon.

Referring to FIGURES 1 and 3 of the drawings there is shown an auxiliary seat It) of rectangular configuration which includes a base or bottom portion 12 having sides 14- and ends 16. The base or bottom 12 constitutes a support for receiving a pad or cushion 18 formed of any soft resilient material, such as sponge rubber, which cushion is retained upon the base portion by means of a cover 2% that has its edges secured to said base portion in any suitable manner.

The seat It is provided with a horizontally extending support or hand rail 22 which terminates in angularly disposed side members or braces 24 that are secured to the ends 16 of the base 12 by any suitable means. The side members or braces 24 are secured to the ends 16 of the base 12 in such a manner that the support Or rail 22 will be elevated in spaced relation to the seat and arranged to overlie one of the sides 14 of said base portion. This arrangement results :in the side members 24 being inclined with respect to the horizontal and said rail 22 and braces 22:4- Will then function as front and side guard members to aid in the retention of a child Within the seat. Thelcentral portion of the horizontal support or hand rail 22 has secured thereon, by any suitable means, one end of a vertically extending brace 26 with the other end of said brace being secured to the base portion 12 of the seat. The'vertically extending brace 26 not only serves to maintain the rail 22 in spaced relation to the upper surface of the seat lti'but also acts as a divider strip that must be straddled by a child when placed in said seat.

The base portion 12 of the seat has mounted on the bottom or lower face thereof a pair of support members or rods 28 and 36). The support members or rods 28 and 3d are arranged in spaced parallel relation .to one another on the lower face of the base portion 12 with the support member '28 being positioned adjacent one of the sides 14 and the support member 30 being located contiguous the other side 14 of the base portion. The support members 28 and 3d are each of a length greater than that of the seat it so that the ends of said members project beyond the ends "16 of the base portion 12 and define or constitute the elements or portions of the auxiliary seat that engage the arms of a barbers chair for supporting or mounting the auxiliary seat 10 thereon. The support member or rod 28 is rigidly secured to the lower face of the base portion 12, by any suitable means While the support member or rod 30 is mounted upon said base portion by a plurality of spaced brackets or metal strap members 32 which are so arranged as to permit the support member 30 to have a free rotative movement within said brackets. The support member or rod 30 has a depending locking or anchoring member or rod 34 secured thereto by means of a bracket web member 36. The locking or anchoring rod member 34 is intended to engage the lower or bottom surface of the arms of a barbers chair and thus hold the end portions of the support members 28 and 30 in engagement with the upper surface of the arms of the barbers chair. In the event that one desires to use the auxiliary seat by supporting same upon the arms of a chair but is not desirous of locking or anchoring the auxiliary seat to said arms, the locking or anchoring rod 34 may be rotated in conjunction with the support member 30 so as to move the rod 34 into abutting engagement with the base portion 12 intermediate the support members 28 and 30. The mounting of the support 30 in the brackets 32 permits the locking rod 34 to be moved to a position between the support members when the auxiliary seat is not needed and it is desired to store same by placing it upon a shelf or suspend it from a suitable book. The various supports or rods mounted on or secured to the seat are preferably formed from light weight tubular metallic stock and colored plastic caps or tips 38 may be placed over the ends of said supports or rods by a press fit or the like.

Wile the auxiliary seat of the present invention is susceptible of use in connection with any type of chair that has arms thereon it is primarily intended to be used upon a barbers chair. In the use of the auxiliary seat in conjunction with a barbers chair having the conventional seat 40, back 42 and arms 44, FIGURE 2, the auxiliary seat 10 is supported on the arms by the end portions of the support members 28 and 30 overlying and engaging the upper surface of the arms 44. It is to be noted that the anchoring or locking rod member 34 is shorter in length than the support members 28 and 30 but still of a length greater than that of the seat 10 and that the front or forward end portion of the arms are bent or flared outwardly a small amount in the customary or conventional manner of all barbers chairs. This outwardly flaring of the front portion of the arms permits the anchoring rod 34 to move not only between but beneath the arms 44 of the chair as the supports 28 and 34) are moved into a sliding engagement with the upper surface of the arms. It has been found that the mounting or placing of the auxiliary seat upon the arms 44 may be more easily accomplished if the forward portion of the auxiliary seat, including the support 28, is slightly elevated, while moving the support member 30 and anchoring rod 34 over the upper and lower surfaces, respectively, of the arms 44 in positioning, the auxiliary seat thereon. After the support member 30 and anchoring rod 34 having been moved to the rear or inner end of the arms 44, so that the seat 10 is abutting the back 42 of the barbers chair, the support member 28 may then be lowered into engagement with the upper surface of the arms 44, which action is made possible by the free mounting of the support member 30 in the brackets 32 on the base portion 12. The auxiliary seat having been so mounted upon and secured to the barbers chair a child may be therein so as to straddle the vertical brace or support 26 whereby the horizontal support 22 and side members 24 become a guard rail to retain the child within the seat and with the seat being securely anchored or mounted upon the arms 44 any sudden lurching or lunging by the child within the seat will not result in said seat becoming disconnected from the barbers chair.

In the event that the support or guard rail 22 is not believed to be necessary but the size of the child still dictates that an auxiliary seat be employed in conjunction with a conventional barbers chair the auxiliary seat 10 may be reversed in its manner of mounting upon the arms 44. In such an arrangement the support members 28 and 30 would be mounted on the upper surface of the arms 44 by first placing the support member 28 upon the upper surface of the arms 44 which would place the horizontal support or guard rail 22 in a position of functioning as a back rest or support adjacent the back 42 of the barbers chair. In a mounting of this type the anchoring or locking member 34 would still engage the bottom face or surface of the arms 44 but instead of being moved into engagement with the back 40 of the barbers chair the support member 30 and locking member 34 would engage the upper and lower surfaces, respectively, of the arms 44 at about the central or midportion of said arms. This arrangement would still insure that the auxiliary seat is securely mounted upon the arms of the barbers chair and not susceptible of being readily removed therefrom or inclined to slip off the arms due to any movement of the child being supported by said seat.

In the event that the barbers chair is not provided with open sides beneath the arms but is designed so that the arms and sides of the chair constitute a solid panel like member then the auxiliary seat as shown in FIGURES 4 and 5 would have to be employed. In the modified form of the auxiliary seat the parts thereof which are identical in all respects with the corresponding parts of the seat as shown in FIGURES 1 through 3 have been identified by the same reference characters. In FIGURE 4 the support member 30 and anchoring or locking member 34 have been formed as a unitary loop like member 46 of rectangular configuration which includes a support element 48 and a locking or anchoring element 50 which are joined together in spaced parallel relation by suitable end members 52. The loop like member 46 is pivotally secured to the base or bottom portion 12 to the seat 10 by means of brackets or strap members 30 that engage the support 48 for mounting same upon the base portion. It is to be noted that the support 48 and locking element 50 are both of a length greater than that of the seat 10 but shorter than the support member 28, so that the loop like member 46 will not only serve to support the rear portion of the seat upon the arms 44, but will encircle the back 42 of the barbers chair.

In the use of the modified form of auxiliary seat, as shown in FIGURES 4 and 5, it is supported on the arms 44 of the barbers chair by means of the support member 28 and support element 48 engaging the upper face of the arms 44 while the member 46 is placed over or looped around the back 42 of the barbers chair in such a manner that the locking or anchoring element 50 engages the rear surface of the back 42 while the end members or portions 52 of the member 46 engage the side surfaces of the back 42 for securely anchoring and locking the auxiliary seat It) the arms of the barbers chair in the manner as shown in FIGURE 2. The support element 48 has a bracket like projection 54 mounted thereon which is adapted to engage the lower face of the base portion 12 of the auxiliary seat to insure that the member 46 is maintained in a substantially horizontal plane when placed over the back 42 of a barbers chair in the manner as shown in FIGURE 5.

Although the foregoing description is necessarily of a detailed character, in order that the invention may be completely set forth, it is to be understood that the specific terminology is not intended to be restrictive or confining and that various rearrangements of parts and modifications of details may be resorted to without departing from the scope or spirit of the invention as herein claimed.

I claim:

An auxiliary seat for a barbers chair comprising a seat portion, a pair of support members mounted on said seat portion in spaced parallel relation to one another with the ends of said members projecting beyond the ends of said seat portion, the ends of said support members overlying and engaging the upper surface of the arms of the barbers chair for supporting the seat portion thereon, a web member affixed to the central portion of one of said 5 6 support members, a locking member connected to said 1,247,161 11/17 Silverman 297-251 web member in spaced parallel relation to said one of 1,368,802 2/21 Johnson 297-251 said support members, said locking member underlying 1,414,452 5/22 Blauert 297l53 and engaging the lower surface of the arms of the bar- ,353,343 4/32 Cross 297-250 bers chair for locking the seat portion and the ends of 5 1,374,437 3/32 B k lf 7 sald pp members thfifeofl- 1,33 509 11 32 w 297 149 References Cited by the Examiner 2,452,252 10/ 48 Masabny 297251 UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,560,458 7/51 893,930 7/ 08 Ledermall 7- 10 FRANK B. SHERRY, Primary Examiner.

902,471 10/08 Bennett 297-251 

